Year: 2008

Last year, the head of the Microsoft’s Developer Division, S. Somasegar, announced that Microsoft had begun investing in F# as one of Microsoft’s supported languages on the .NET platform. I am now thrilled to announce one result of this investment: F# will ship as part of Visual Studio 2010! Since the September 2008 CTP of…

A great blog from Brian McNamara on What does this C# code look like in F#? …when you are new to a language (F#), it is sometimes useful to know how to transliterate from a well-known language (C#) for those cases where you just don’t know the idioms yet, but don’t want that to prevent you…

So, it’s quite fun to stumble across the F# for Scientists online book club! And the next meeting is tonight! Welcome to the F# for Scientists Book Club! Our next meeting is Monday, December 8th @ 7pm PST. We’ll be discussing Chapter 2: Program Structure Anyone can join you just need the following: The book!: http://is.gd/7TIv Skype ID Microsoft SharedView

The one and only Luca Bolognese has released his model .NET implementations of Excel financial functions in F#. You can get it from here. What is it? This is a .NET library that provides the full set of financial functions from Excel. The main goal for the library is compatibility with Excel, by providing the same…

John Whitington of Coherent PDF recently announced the availability of a .NET SDK version of their PDF Command Line Toolokit, written in 20,000 lines of cross-compiling OCaml/F#. Here’s an excerpt of what he had to say on the F# list: Thanks for all your help with this project thus far. We’re almost ready to…

One of the most intriguing F# announcements recently is “Avalda FPGA Developer”. Here’s the descripton from Stephen Afande, the brains behind Avalda: The compiler enables folks to compile [a subset of] F# code to an HDL netlist output suitable for running on an FPGA. From Avalda’s home page: compile parallel F# scripting code to FPGA netlist…

Ralf Herbrich has updated both the TrueSkill in F# and TrueSkill Through Time samples to both work with the new F# September 2008 CTP and to use unit-of-measure with the Gaussian belief distributions. Ralf says: Following the publication of the F# source code for the TrueSkill Through Time paper, we have used the same inference library…

Credit Suisse is seeking to recruit an expert in functional programming for a senior role in the Global Modelling and Analytics Group (GMAG) in the Securities Division. Cross-posted from http://cs.hubfs.net/forums/thread/7066.aspx: The group consists of about 140 people worldwide. The majority of the group are mathematicians engaged in developing mathematical models for financial products traded by…

It’s been a week now since we posted the F# September 2008 CTP release, and it’s been fantastic to see the great response from existing and new F# users alike. We’ve received a lot of good feedback too, and a big thank you to everyone who has taken the time to email us with suggestions…